Like the Anthology project that it lampooned, it featured tracks ostensibly from all periods of the Rutles career, sequenced to reflect the fictional band's chronology.

The cover for Shark Sandwich, one of the band's earlier fictional albums

In addition to the fictional band's performances on stage, the characters would break into song when they were off-stage ( much like in a stage musical ).

In 2010, she appeared in The Runaways, a biographical movie about the band of the same name, playing a fictional version of the band's bassist.

The fictional band's music was recorded by session musicians featuring Ron Dante on vocals and released as a series of singles and albums.

Unlike the S Club 7 shows which focused upon the band's fictional exploits, I Dream saw S Club 8 as members of a larger ensemble cast.

Blackwell has also referred to fictional bands who appear on the sleeves of HMHB records and in songs-an essay on " Evil Gazebo " ( and that band's relationship to " Pankhurst ") appears on the liner of Trouble Over Bridgwater and both bands are mentioned in one of that album's songs.

The film Hard Core Logo, a mockumentary about a fictional punk band's reunion tour, includes a song called " Canadian Bush Party " in tribute to the band.

Composed while Anastasio attended Goddard College in 1987, the thesis included an essay piece and collection of songs ( recorded by Phish ) relating an epic tale from the band's fictional land of Gamehendge. Aronson, Anne, " Phish Set Off Fireworks in Camden ", Rolling Stone, July 6, 2000

According to the fictional account, Erin was moody and mysterious, and disappeared shortly before the band's eponymous album was due to be released in 1974.

Platinum Weird features noted songwriter Kara DioGuardi on vocals and the band has re-recorded some of the fictional original band's songs and some new ones as well for an upcoming album.

The numerous masked individuals and the large costumed character are regular fixtures of the band's stage show and often tie into their fictional superhero mythology.

Detailed in their lyrics, liner notes, comprehensive website and now television series, The Aquabats have developed a small but elaborate universe surrounding this mythology, describing the band's fictional adventures as well as conceiving an extensive roster of enemies and allies, many of whom are the subjects of specific songs and have appeared as part of the band's stage shows in mock fight scenes or comedic skits.

Over the years, this mythology, and in particular the fictional backstory regarding their origins, has continually changed, evolved and occasionally been retconned to explain changes in the band's line-up.

The film features the fictional pop band's performance of " Burning Rubber Tires ", which was lampooned in a sketch on Mystery Science Theater 3000 for its unintelligible lyrics, specifically the chorus, " hear the engines roll now ", which was interpreted by the MST3K cast as " hideous control now ", " idiot control now " and other variations.

The band's name refers to the enormous flying glove in The Beatles ' 1968 animated movie Yellow Submarine, and the album's title Blue Sunshine refers to the horror film Blue Sunshine, in which people who took the fictional " Blue Sunshine " variety of LSD became psychotic murderers ten years later.

The band's name is taken from a fictional entertainment device described in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

" Like the real Besser, the fictional Besser's run with Spinal Tap is short-lived due to his poor fit with the band's style ( in a 1991 interview the character explains that he, a jazz drummer, couldn't handle playing the 4 / 4 beat typical of most metal music ).

The band's name comes from a fictional word created by singer Jessicka in 1999.

Previous styles have included a series of fictional flags set to music between 1997 and 1999 before the major relaunch, incorporating the new contemporary music composed by David Lowe, and graphics developed by Lambie-Nairn.

Hee Haw is an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with fictional rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop.

is steeped with references to the 1960s popular music scene ( at one point a list of 200 fictional bands performing at the Walpurgisnacht rock festival is reeled off ( including a handful of actual bands of the 60s ), and there are numerous references to the famous rock and roll song, " Rock Around the Clock "), and has influenced many bands and musicians.

Johann Peter Schickele ( born July 17, 1935 ) is an American composer, musical educator, and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring music written by Schickele, but which he presents as being composed by the fictional P. D. Q. Bach.

Still sided by Jan H., Ernst got involved with ( fictional ) female-fronted bands ; they were members of Midnight Hour and Rien Ne Va Plus, and scored the music for television series Switch starring Ernst's wife-to-be Jaloe Maat.

The Compact Oxford English Dictionary states that the word may have originated from the surname of a fictional rowdy Irish family in a music hall song of the 1890s.

* In 1987, fictional music group Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song for " Ask Alvin ," an episode of their TV series.

This program was set in a fictional women's prison and Caswell wrote the music specifically for it.

The scheme enlists the aid of a country music singer, who creates several theme songs for the war ; a " fad king "; and a costume designer, who helps create a fictional special forces unit to fight the war's supposed battles.

This Is Spinal Tap is an American 1984 rock and roll musical mock documentary directed by Rob Reiner about the fictional heavy metal music band Spinal Tap.

By extension, the word has also been used to mean any sort of recurring theme, ( whether or not subject to developmental transformation ) in music, literature, or ( metaphorically ) the life of a fictional character or a real person.

In 1997, a successful advertising campaign was launched using a fictional musical group called the Spicy Crispy Girls ( a take off of the Spice Girls, a British pop music girl group-at the time one of the most popular groups in the world ), in comedic national television commercials.

Mr. Holland's Opus is presented as a video biography of the 30-year career of the eponymous lead character, Glenn Holland, as a music teacher at the fictional John F. Kennedy High School in Portland, Oregon.

Such sources could include: absorbing a native language spoken in a different dialects or countries, a language other than their own and fictional language from books, music, films and videogames.

Mister Ed ), fictional Blue Öyster Cult member Gene Frenkle ( physically modeled after Blue Öyster Cult vocalist Eric Bloom ), music teacher Marty Culp, Spartan cheerleader Craig Buchanan, Dale Sturtevant from " Dissing Your Dog ", Hank of the Bill Brasky Buddies, David Leary from " Dog Show ", and night clubber Steve Butabi in a sketch that went to the big screen in 1998's A Night at the Roxbury.

The band considered a number of screenplays before settling on Slade in Flame, a gritty tale of the rise and fall of a fictional 1960s group called Flame, the story was based on true music business events involving Slade and various other groups of the time.

* Eleanor Miller, fictional member of the music group The Chipettes

It revolves around the Bratz as they enter a music competition held by fictional music star " Whisper ", and as they get closer to finishing their song for the contest, they also uncover Whisper's true identity.

In the modern comedy world the music hall is represented by Ida Barr, a fictional pensioner from the East End.

* Sarah Waters's book Tipping the Velvet ( 1998 ) revolves around the world of music halls in the late Victorian era, and in particular around two fictional " mashers " ( drag kings ) named Kitty Butler and Nan King.

In addition to music and interviews, the stations also include satirical commercials, such as the Degenatron, a fictional video game console (" Save the green dots with your fantastic flying red square!

It is from this unpromising background that the fictional private detective was recruited.

His name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes ' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans ' Monsieur Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer living in London.

On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

Selkirk's story aroused great interest at home, and Daniel Defoe's fictional character Robinson Crusoe was almost certainly based in part on him.

" In the 1998 film Deep Impact fictional astronaut Spurgeon " Fish " Tanner, portrayed by Robert Duvall, was described at a Presidential Press Conference as the " Last man to walk on the moon " by the President of the United States, portrayed by Morgan Freeman.

An argument for the value of art, used in the fictional work ' The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ', proceeds that, if some external force presenting imminent destruction of Earth asked humanity what it's value was -- what should humanity's response be?

* In the 1989 film Major League it was announced of fictional New York Yankees pitcher Duke Simpson: " The Duke led the American League this year in saves, ERA, and hit batsmen.

The poem deals with legends, was composed for entertainment, and does not separate between fictional elements and real historic events, such as the raid by King Hygelac into Frisia.

The first series, made in 1983, was called The Black Adder ( set in the fictional reign of " Richard IV ").

Andy Medhurst wrote in his 1991 essay " Batman, Deviance, and Camp " that Batman is interesting to gay audiences because " he was one of the first fictional characters to be attacked on the grounds of his presumed homosexuality ," " the 1960s TV series remains a touchstone of camp ," and " merits analysis as a notably successful construction of masculinity.

One of the best known poems about the battle is Casabianca, which was written by Felicia Dorothea Hemans in 1826 and describes a fictional account of the death of Captain Casabianca's son on Orient.

There was a fictional computer named Colossus in the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project.

In 1942, it was converted to a presidential retreat by Franklin D. Roosevelt and renamed " Shangri-La " ( for the fictional Himalayan paradise ).

Another similarity to Jane Eyre was the use of aspects from her own life as inspiration for fictional events, in particular reworking the time she spent at the pensionnat in Brussels into Lucy teaching at the boarding school, and falling in love with Constantin Heger into Lucy falling in love with ' Paul Emanuel '.

The play The Reckoning of Kit and Little Boots by Nat Cassidy, examines the lives of the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe and Caligula, with the fictional conceit that Marlowe was working on a play about Caligula around the time of his own murder.

It is an eponym of a possibly fictional French soldier Nicolas Chauvin who was credited with many superhuman feats in the Napoleonic wars.

it was released on the 27th of April in Ireland and the 30th of April in the UK, and features the titular character, Electra Heart, as a fictional character of Marina's creation who epitomizes the American female at her very worst, in the four " Archetypes "; the Primadonna, SuBarbieA, Homewrecker, and the Teen Idle.

In the fictional history of Middle-earth, the original Certhas Daeron was created by the elf Daeron, the minstrel of king Thingol of Doriath and was later expanded into what was known as the Angerthas Daeron.

Archer, like Hammett's fictional heroes, was a camera eye, with hardly any known past.

") Dacoits existed in Burma as well as India, and Rudyard Kipling's fictional Private Mulvaney was hunting Burmese " dacoits " in The Taking of Lungtungpen.

It is less generally realized that his Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer ( 1964 ) was a similar exercise, exploring theological questions through correspondence addressed to a fictional recipient, " Malcolm ", though this work may be considered a " novel " only loosely in that developments in Malcolm's personal life gradually come to light and impact the discussion.

One of Dijkstra's sidelines was serving as Chairman of the Board of the fictional Mathematics Inc., a company that he imagined having commercialized the production of mathematical theorems in the same way that software companies had commercialized the production of computer programs.

One of the most famous Imperial coronation ceremonies was that of Napoleon, crowning himself Emperor in the presence of Pope Pius VII ( who had blessed the regalia ), at the Notre Dame de Paris | Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The painting by Jacques-Louis David | David commemorating the event is equally famous: the gothic cathedral restyled Empire ( style ) | style Empire, supervised by the Letizia Ramolino | mother of the Emperor on the balcony ( a fictional addition, while she had not been present at the ceremony ), the pope positioned near the altar, Napoleon proceeds to crown his then wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais as Empress.